Moore-Gibson-Thompson theory for thermoelastic dielectrics (Q824083)

The paper deals with the longstanding problem of the interaction of electromagnetic fields with thermoelastic dielectrics. The novelty of the approach in this paper is in the application of the recent Moore-Gibson-Thompson theory to linear thermoelastic dielectrics. Further the authors propose an energy for the coupling in such a way that it defines a norm which is equivalent to the classical one in the Sobolev space \(W^{1,2}\). The field equations are obtained in Section 2, whereas the rigid solid case is considered in Section 3, where both existence and exponential decay of solutions are obtained. In Section 4 the general Moore-Gibson-Thompson thermoelasticity of dielectric materials is investigated and the existence of solutions and their stability are studied.